Baggage-carrier for automobiles.



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POWELL EVANS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA IBAGGEAGE-CARRIER FOR AUTOMOBILES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 22, 1910.

Application filed November 10,190@ Serial No. 527,296.-

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, POWELL EVANS, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have inventedv car or involving any radical change in the l arrangement and construction of its parts.

I further desire to provide a baggage carrier for motor vehicles which shall have a plurality of compartments, so arranged and constructed as to be dust and water proof,

'and at the same time conveniently accessible and easily opened in order'to permit of the placing or removal of their contents.

These objects and other advantageous ends I secure being1 had to the accompanying drawings, in Whic Figure 1, is a side elevation of a portion of a motor vehicle, illustrating my invention as applied thereto; Fig. 2, is an end elevation of the constructionshown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, is a vertical lon itudinal section on a somewhat larger scale t an Fig. 1, illustratin the detail' construction of my invention. ig. 4, is a transverse vertica section on the line a-a, Fig. l. Fi 5, is a perspective view of the removab e baggage container, and Fig. 6, is apers ective View showing the detail of the rear oor support.

In the above drawings, 1 represents the body of an automobile, 2 the side members of the steel frame, and 3 the side members of the wooden frame.

As is customary, the car is provided with a rear seat formed with a horizontal portion 4 and a vertical front 5, extending at right angles to each other and projecting forwardly from the rear end 6 of the body.

The two sides of the carbody, together with the seat parts 4 and 5, constitute respectively the sides, to and front of a lspace which I propose to uti ize as a bagga e con.

provl e said tainer, and for this purpose I space with a floor or bottom 8 and a rear door 9. This latter is rovided at the lower portion of its side e ges with projecting hinge pins or trunnions 10 designed to as hereinafter setforth, reference the frame 2, for it will be note enter slots 10a formed in suitable lates or castings 11 carried by the rear en s of the steel frame 2; the rear door 9 having at its top a lock 11it of any desired construction, and a handle 13. If desired there may also be locks 11h at each end of the door.

It will be understood that .with such a con-l struction it is locks have been back and down and thereafter bodily re move it. The object of such an arrangement is apparent when it is noted that below possible, when the lock or released, to swing the door 9 the bottom 12 of the container formed under the seat AI suspend a second baggage vcarrier 14, made in the form of a vertically elongated box of rectangular section formed of light sheet metal or other suitable material, and of such va width as to be capable of fitting between the opposite pairs of the frame parts 2 and 3.

To the top edges of the sides of this box I rivet or otherwise suitably attach two outserve as runners or guides, the top surface of the :trame to permit of said container rearwardly by means of one 16 after the rear door 9 has and removed.' If desired I may also em loy two other flan es or angles 15L at the ront and rear top ecges of the container.

A suitable stop to limit the forwardmoveand slide upon members 3 so as 14 being moved or more' handles 'wardly extending angle irons 15, which` been swung back y.

ment of the container 14 is provided by the ortions of that said placed between the e framernembers, is so 4as to permit of the instrut 17 which connects the rear strut, instead of bein extremities of the si moved forwardly troduction of sind members.

container 14 between said In order that it may be perfectly dust and moisture proof, I place on the top surface of the members 3 strips 18 of felt or other material whereby this end is eiectually at tained. If desired, similar strips 18 may also be laced in between the inside surface of the oor 9 and the adjacent taceot the container 14, as well as wherever else it may be necessary in order to prevent the entrance of water or dust.

I claim 1. Thexjcom'bination in a baggage carrier for automobiles of a car body having a seat, means co-acting with said seat 'to form a baggage container under the same, with a second and structurally independent yconthe second container in position under said tainel-'hpening into and mounted under said first container.l first container.A In testimony whereof, I have signed my 2. The combination with a motor` vehicle name to this specification, in the presence of 5 bodly offa seat,ba structure oo-actin there two subscribing Witnesses.

wit to orm a a a eoontaner un er sai 1 seat, said structui igiicluding a rear door, POWELL L-VNS' and a second container suspended under the Witnesses: bottom of the first container, said door being WILLIAM E. BRADLEY, 10 placed to close the first container and retain WM. A. BARR'. 

